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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Henge and Four Bronze Age Barrows South West of Fox CovertCountry: England County: Wiltshire Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Calne Nearest Village: Beckhampton
Map Ref: SU07066830
Latitude: 51.413677N Longitude: 1.899873W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Barrow Cemetery in Wiltshire. This is the site of four Bronze Age barrows - only one is clearly visible today as a 28m wide and 2.2m high, tree covered bell-barrow (described as rare in the entry by Historic England), surrounded by a 3.5m flat-berm.
There are three other barrows recorded by Historic England at the same location - a plough levelled bowl-barrow, 15m across, seen in aerial photographs, known to antiquarians as 'The Bards Barrow'. The next is a 19m across, 0.3m high bowl-barrow and the final bowl-barrow 14m across is in the next field to the south (seen only as a dark mark in the chalk). Note - this last barrow is partially cut on its north side by a Roman Road, which runs East-West between Speen and Bath, with an associated linear earthwork to the east of this site.
There was also a henge, which has now been ploughed down. In 1743 it was recorded by William Stukeley in a plan in his book 'Abury a Temple of the British Druids' - the henge is described by Historic England as "a buried oval ditch defining an area 66m east-west and 58m north-south. There is a break in the north east side of this circuit, visible on aerial photographs, which appears to be the entrance". Historic England Listing Number 1007491
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